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Classify the following processes as physical or chemical changes:

a) After mopping the floor, it gets dry in ten minutes time.

b) Ice cubes are taken out of the freezer and left on a plate at room temperature during half
an hour.

c) The milk in a forgotten glass has turned sour.

d) You toast so much a piece of bread that it carbonises.

e) In gigantic oil refineries, some men get gasoline by distillation of petroleum.

f) A woman breath on a mirror and mist is formed on the surface.

g) Your brother hangs up the wet clothes after washing them and they get dry in twelve hours
time.

h) You hold a lighter to a candlewick and a yellow flame appears.

i) After washing an iron frying pan, some reddish rust stains appear on the surface.

Match the experiment and the change that you think might take place:

A flame appears Vinegar is poured in a glass with coke

A change in colour A match is lit

Bubbles appear A nail oxidises

Precipitate appears An effervescent pill is put in water

By applying the Law of Conservation of Mass, predict the mass of the other compound:

2.- Which has a larger mass, a new iron nail or a rusty iron nail? Explain the

reasons for our answer and draw the reaction with atoms.

3.- When you open a fizzy drink, does its mass increase or decrease? State

your hypothesis and debate in a small group.

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